Heinrich burger



No. 609,497. Patented Aug. 23, I898. H. BURGER & T. LUTZ.

BANDAGE.

(Application filed Dec. 16, 1897.) (No Model.)

FZLIQCZ' HEINRICH BURGER, OF LlCl-ITENTI-IAL, AND THEODOR LUTZ, OF

BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY.

BANDAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,497, dated August 23, 1898.

Application fil d December 16, 1897. Serial No. 662,142. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, HEINRICH BURGER, residing at Lichtenthal, near Baden-Baden, and THEODOR LUTZ, residing at Baden-Baden, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, citizens of the Grand Duchy of Baden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Body-Belts, Rupture Belts or Supports, and the Like for Surgical and Hygienic Purposes; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

0 ur invention relates to improved constructions of body-belts for surgical and hygienic purposes, such as for navel ruptures and the like, which belts are combined with a dorsal support and the fastening of which to the front pad or plate of the belt is not effected by means of buckles as heretofore, but by means of buttons or studs.

With the customary fastenings of rupturebelts and the like by means of two or more straps there was heretofore either no dorsal support at all or the straps were combined with a dorsal plate or pad without means of adjustment and so that they easily slipped near together, more particularly at the hips, by the movements of the body, whereby the pad or plate was caused to lose its hold and in slipping upward became inefficient and frequently caused the wearer considerable pain, owing to the excessive and concentrated pressure of the straps when shifted together.

According to the present invention there is combined with the straps a special dorsal plate which has suitable perforations for the attachment of the straps by means of cords or laces, the said attachments being so arranged that the straps can be secured nearer together or farther apart, according to requirements, so that as the straps, in consequence of their arrangement, must always be parallel, a pushing together thereof is impossible. As, furthermore, the belt or pad combined with the straps in the above-described manner cannot possibly lose its hold, being held equally at top and bottom by the parallel straps, the auxiliary supporting-straps such as are necessary with belts or supports of usual construction can be entirely dispensed with.

0n the accompanying drawings is shown by way of example a body belt or support constructed according to our above-described invention.

Figure 1 shows the complete body-belt with the new dorsal support and the new mode of strap-fastening. Fig. 2 shows an enlarged detailed View of the front part or pad of the belt, together with the mode of securing the straps. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged back view of the dorsal support or plate.

The belt consists of the two straps c and c, which are secured to any desired form of front support pad or plate a by means of the studs Z2 and are attached to the dorsal sup port plate or pad (2 by means of cords or laces. This support consists of a plate of any suitable material, inwhich are formed rows of holes (1, serving for the passage of the laces or cords e, which secure the straps c, simi larly provided with holes, in the manner shown; The straps are thus effectually secured in their relative positions by the dorsal plate and cannot shift nearer together, but they can be shifted nearer together or farther apart on the plate cl by passing the cords or laces through a different set of holes of the latter.

The improvements relate, furthermore,- to the easy and convenient means for connecting the dorsal part with thefront part.

With body-belts of usual construction the dorsal part was either inseparably'attached to the front part or was connected thereto by buckles, laces, 850. According to the improved construction, as'above described, the connection of the dorsal plate with each side of the front part a is effected by means of two or more studs or buttons attached thereto, onto which the straps attached to the dorsal plate are buttoned by means of buttonholes.

The front part or pad a is divided at the middle and adjustably secured together by means of laces. On each side it is provided with a plate of more or less hard but flexible material (indicated by the dotted lines a'.)

These plates to carry the studs 5, twoor more in number, onto which the straps c c are buttoned. The studs are arranged in inclined rows, as shown-that is to say, the two lower ones'are nearer together than the two upper ones. By this means the lower part of the pad a can be effectually pressed close against the abdomen, this being only effected in existing constructions by means of additional straps.

It will be readily understood that other forms of belts, such as rupture-belts and the like, can be constructed in a similar manner to that above described.

Having thus described the nature and objects of our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A body bandage, belt or support, comprising a two-part laced front pad provided in each with a flexible plate which is interposed between the front and back materials of said pad and having upper and lower studs, the lower studs being nearer to each other than the upper studs, a dorsal pad provided with parallel rows of perforations, two body-strips each perforated and adapted to engage said studs and laces adapted to be passed through said strips and dorsal pad, when certain rows of perforations of said pad are caused to register with the perforations of said straps, whereby the distance between the straps on the dorsal pad may be readily adjusted, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In witness whereof we have hereunto signed our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HEINRICH BURGER.

TI-IEODOR LUTZ.

. Witnesses:

EDOUARD SoHLossI, ERNEST THERION. 

